Larimer county wild fire

[jeffreyinberthoud]

Anyone further north hearing were the wild fire is Im hearing Ft Collins sending a chopper and Also hearing traffic on Larimer con. channels but cant gfigure out where they are talking about ,they are looking to county for Mutual aid.

[rickak]

They're calling it the Hewlett Gulch fire, I haevn't heard a sizeup as I just started listening.

Sounds like the chopper will be taking water from Seaman reservoir.

Rick

[jeffreyinberthoud]

Thanks something to listen to this evening at work....

[Spud]

Unified I.C. is USFS with resource comms on 169.175 as well as some gvt simplex frequencies.
They are making staffing plans for the next four shifts into tomorrow with request for 160 Fire fighters.
Planning on up to 200 meals for tomorrow morning thru a local catering business.

Location is about 10 miles west of the intersection of Hwy 14 and US 287.
Fire is northeast of Hewlett Gulch on the north side of Hwy 14.

SEAT shutting down for the evening. Expected to be back working by 0900 tomorrow morning.

WX conditions not expected to be of any help in the next few days.

73,

The Spud

[jimmnn]

200 acres is what command is saying.

Moderators should this thread be moved to breaking news?

Jim<

[aprswatcher]

as of 0625/15
InciWeb the Incident Information System: Hewlett Fire

73, Rex

[rickak]

Wow this thread is over a year old, lol.

[Spud]

A briefing will be held at 0900 local time at the Fire Station at Poudre Park.
Helo confirmed for today but heavy Air Tanker is not confirmed yet.

The Spud.

[jimmnn]

U/D:

~100 people working Hewlett Fire; SEAT and Type 3 helo working; more resources ordered.

discussing 160 homes which may need to evacuate.

Jim<

[rickak]

Air Ops on 123.125

Rick

[Spud]

Reporting 300 acres with 5 percent containment at 10 am.

The Spud.

[jimmnn]

InciWeb the Incident Information System: Hewlett Fire

Jim<

[RMason]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9B179 Safari/7534.48.3)

http://larimer.org/emergency/emergency_detail.cfm?nam_id=82

[dougw65]

Good listening on: 123.125 AIR OPS; 166.850 AIR TO GROUND; 168.65 TANKER BASE; 122.7 FC/LOV AIRPORT... going to be a worker I'm afraid.....wish they'd get it out-- you can smell it in the house

[thomasbillman1]

Anyone streaming this fire> Fire is doing pretty good for being in low fire danger which is what It saids in the cordination center?

[jimmnn]

the poudre canyon fire near fort collins has now grown to 640 acres tonight...and remains 5-percent contained. some homes remain on evacuation standby,...but fire appears to be moving away from densely populated areas. investigators believe... it was a human caused fire...but are not being specific. 150 firefighters on the ground,...another 180 ordered to the fireline. one fixed wing aircraft, two helos on site...heavy air tanker requested.

Jim<

[jimmnn]

Media reporting differently, but this is from LCSO.

No evacuations have been ordered for the Hewlett Fire at this time.

Also slideshow from today; http://kdvr.com/2012/05/16/slideshow...medium=twitter

Jim<

[jimmnn]

U/D: The Hewlett Fire is 5,090 acres with 391 firefighters assigned to the incident, still only 5% containment.

Jim<

[jimmnn]

CO Hwy 14 now closed at US 287.

Jim<

[kd7lxl]

I'm listening to Larimer County Fire and EMS Live Scanner Audio Feed. Are there any feeds that include USFS?

Mandatory evacuation of residents south of Bonner Springs Ranch Road along 287.